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Day 16: Your guilty pleasure show --

LAW & ORDER: SVU - It's a cactus wholly bristling with fraud & manipulation, pretending to be something it's not -- I know what it is, and I go to it all the same

Day 17: Favorite mini series -

JOHN ADAMS - Laura Linney is Abigail Adams, and with Paul Giamatti, she brought the viewer entirely into that marriage

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20. I'm not sure what I like better--the kiss, or the idea that the entire material for Cordelia/Wesley's budding feelings for each other was simply setup for one moment of delirious anticlimax. (Also, perhaps I shouldn't share this, but my girlfriend has described our very first kiss as being like Cordelia and Wesley's, with the second and third being very, very big improvements; but at the time I was mostly just proud and happy that she had internalized my favourite show, which she watched on my recommendation, so much.)

21. Yep.

22. I like the things you mention, besides the robot montage at the end, but I have some issues with other bits of it. I'm curious what your non-modern TV picks would be?

23. Do you mean "held her back" in the sense that if you were Willow's friend you would advise her that Oz was not helping her, and wish that they would break up so she can find fulfillment as a person; or "held her back" in that Willow's character arc in the show--which eventually leads both to World Destroyer and White Goddess, and so is both ascent and descent as a person but all progress as a story, was impeded? Or are these options not even close?

24. A hundred "best ever" quotes from Restless are possible; that's a good one.

26. Yes.

27. It's pretty impressive. What happened between this episode and "Encounter at Farpoint"? I guess twenty years, fame, and GR being told again and again how much he had changed the world for the better.

30. The way the event means such different things for Buffy and Angel gives it added resonance; Angel's side is set up mostly in Becoming 1, but the classical tragedy that befalls him (for many of the things sum1different mentions above, in addition to the Crimes of Angelus) is painful out of the recognition that it's what he brought on himself, while Buffy chose to let herself be drawn in by her heart when she knew she shouldn't, and she has to stand back and watch as he gets sucked into hell and has to believe it's her fault (and hers alone)....

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[do you mean "held her back" in the sense that if you were Willow's friend you would advise her that Oz was not helping her, and wish that they would break up so she can find fulfillment as a person; or "held her back" in that Willow's character arc in the show--which eventually leads both to World Destroyer and White Goddess, and so is both ascent and descent as a person but all progress as a story, was impeded?]

Willow was the most likely candidate to be able to develop personally without being in a romantic relationship in high school -- people do, tho' it's un-american or maybe wholly un-contemporary to do it.